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‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes

Folklore, 2023
This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis of the 264 memes illustrates that Thunberg’s environmental agenda is not central among the memes’ topics.
Anastasiya Fiadotava
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Please Be Nice: A Deep Learning Based Approach to Content Moderation of Internet Memes

International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communications, 2023
The internet has grown throughout time from a means for information distribution to a multipurpose tool that allows people to communicate, meet, and interact with one another.
Genevive Macrayo, Wilfredo Casiño, Jerecho Dalangin, Jervin Gabriel Gahoy, Aaron Christian Reyes, Christian Vitto, Mideth B. Abisado, Shekinah Lor B. Huyo-a, G. A. R. Sampedro   +8 more
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Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis-Covid-19 pandemic in Israel

Online information review (Print), 2023
PurposeThe paper aims to explore, using an analysis of the three components of memes content, form and stance – whether and how the memes offer a broad picture of a specific society during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.Design/methodology/approachThe ...
T. Laor
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Meaning extensions of internet memes

Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2023
AbstractThis paper explores the constructional properties of internet memes by conducting a case study ofIf 2020 was a(n) X(IYWX) memes within the framework of Viewpoint Spaces (Dancygier & Vandelanotte, 2017). By looking into constructional properties and viewpoint interactions at multiple conceptual levels evoked by the juxtaposition of text and ...
Ji-in Kang, Hanbeom Jung, A Young Kwon, Iksoo Kwon   +3 more
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Humor, Politics and the Global North: A Systematic Literature Review of Internet Memes

Internet Reference Services Quarterly
Internet users commonly use the phrase “Internet meme” to refer to a diverse range of online content, such as jokes, gossip, and videos in online communication (Shifman, 2013).
Preetham Gopalakrishna Adiga, P. K
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Let's All Laugh Together: A Novel Multitask Framework for Humor Detection in Internet Memes

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Recognizing humor in meme data is a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) due to the complexity and variability of humor.
G. Kumari, Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay, Asif Ekbal, Santanu Pal, Arindam Chatterjee, Vinutha B. N.   +5 more
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The Rise of Cross-Language Internet Memes: A Social Semiotic Analysis

Signs and Society
Cross-language internet memes have emerged as a unique and popular mode of online communication, combining bilingual elements with visually textual components.
Xinyu Huang, Yifan Han, Yi Ran, Yakun Yang, Yixin Yang   +4 more
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From Humour to Impact: Internet Memes in Political Discourse through (de)legitimization

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
Internet memes, as artifacts of digital culture, quickly spread political ideas and critiques, transcending traditional media. Despite their prevalence, understanding how memes use semiotic elements and (de)legitimization strategies to shape political ...
Tri Indah Rezeki, Rakhmat Wahyudin Sagala, Rabukit Rabukit   +2 more
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Those ‘funny’ internet memes: a study of misinformation retransmission and vaccine hesitancy

Behavior and Information Technology
Vocal vaccine opposition and hesitancy due to social media-based misinformation is a global threat to public health. This research seeks to investigate the influence of internet memes on misinformation retransmission in the context of COVID-19 vaccine ...
P. Kapoor, Abhishek Behl
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Internet memes and social media marketing: a review of theories

Online information review (Print)
PurposeSeveral businesses have begun to use memes as part of social media marketing. Although memes have been independently explored through various theories, their use in social media marketing has not yet been explored.
Charunayan Kamath, S. Alur
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